When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen - Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness. - Philip K. Dick

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this. - Maureen Johnson, The World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues

People are successful because they think and act like successful people. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing. - Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Love is a game of tic-tac-toe,constantly waitingfor the next x or o. - Lang Leav

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! - Brian Tracy

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course. - Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. - Guy Debord

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. - Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. - Dr. Seuss

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. - John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has. - William Goldman, The Princess Bride

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. - Ernest Hemingway

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock. - J.M. Dattilo